The Athenaeum is the official student newspaper at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. It was founded in 1874, initially as a student literary magazine. The Athenaeum continued in its original format until the 1940s, at which point it became a more traditional newspaper.
The Acadia University Athenaeum Society, preceding the paper, was established in 1860 by a group of students. By 1895, the Society had added debating to their objective, and was thereafter alternatively known as the Athenaeum Debating Society. The 1935 Calendar states that the Athenaeum Society sponsored all inter-class, intercollegiate and other debates.
In 1874 the Athenaeum Society issued the first issue of the student publication, the Acadia Athenaeum.
The Athenaeum was predeceased by the Lyceum Society which was established in 1858 and dissolved in 1860.
It has a circulation of 600 per issue to the Acadia campus and the community of Wolfville. It is available free of charge and is distributed to local businesses and many on-campus buildings.
Past Editors-in-Chief
2023-24 – Ryan MacIntyre
2022-23 – Abby-Jean Gertridge
2021-22 – Axel Eschholz
2020-21 – Rylie Moscato
2019-20- Ruvimbo Chipazi
2018-19 – Colin Mitchell
2017-18 – Sid Kondapuram
2016-17 – Andrew Haskett
2015-16 – Andrew Haskett
2014-15 – Stephanie Bethune
2013-14 – Iain Bauer
2012-13 – Qasim Kareemi
2011-12 – Vanessa Gallant
2010-11 – Angela Johnson
2009-10 – Tim Hansen
2008-09 – Fraser MacKinnon-Blair
2007-08 – Lucas Timmons
2006-07 – Angela Wilson
2005-06 – Sarah O’Connor
2004-05 – Jon Flemming
2003-04 – Janice Hudson
1960-61 – L.J. Amey
1954-55 – Floyd MacDonald
1953-54 – Shirley Eagles
1952-53 – Brooke Earle Sheldon
1949-50 – Walter Baker
1948-49 – Ronald E. Nickerson
1947-48 – Victor McLaughlin
1946-47 – Donald Tapley
1945-46 – J.B. Stewart
1942-43 – John Orrell Levine
1939-41 – Robbins Elliot
1938-39 – A. Harry MacLean
1936-37 – Harcourt Cameron
1917-18 – Helen Starr
1912-13 – J.L. Ilsley
1908-09 – Malcolm Robbins Elliot